Contents 1. Periods in the history of American newspapers 2. The first American newspapers 3. Newspaper personalities 4. Categories of American newspapers 4.1. African-American newspapers 5. List of top newspapers in the USA 5.1. The four most influential newspapers See also References
Task: Choose one of the newspapers and find information about it, using the Internet or other information sources.
Newspaper personalities
These are the names of the Americans who contributed much to the development of American journalism and press.
Task: Describe the contribution of each person to the development of American journalism.
Benjamin Franklin
Joseph Pulitzer
Nellie Bly
Dorothy Day
Categories of newspapers
African American newspapers African American newspapers are those newspapers in the United States that seek readers primarily of African American descent. These newspapers came into existence in 1827 when Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm started the first African-American periodical called Freedom's Journal. In the late 19th century the main reason that the papers were created was for economic stability, and not for uplifiting. However, African Americans found both through African American Papers that were aspiring to fight oppression. Many Black newspapers that began publishing in the 60's, 70's, and 80's went out of business because they could not attract enough advertising and economic decline. As of 2002, 2000 Black newspapers remained. As of 2010 however, there has been a resurgence of online African American news organizations, most notably Black News, The Grio, and Black Voices. With the decline of print media and proliferation of internet access, more and more black news websites are popping up every day.
List of newspapers in the United States
Top 25 by circulation
This is a list of the 25 U.S. newspapers with the largest daily circulation. These figures were compiled by the Audit Bureau of Circulations for the six months ending September 2010, and represent each paper's highest circulation of the week, typically the Sunday edition. When two papers in a city produce a combined edition under a joint operating agreement, they are listed side-by-side.
The four most influential newspapers The largest newspapers (by circulation) in the United States are USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Group work Task: Create a poster about the four most influential newspapers.
Periods in the history of American newspapers are taken from: Dominick, J.R. (1999). The Dynamics of Mass Communication. – 6th ed., Boston: McGraw-Hill, pp.86-98;
Campbell, R. (2004). Media and culture: an Introduction to mass communication. 4th ed., New York: Bedford/St.Martin’s, excerpted from pp.265-279
1. Periods in the history of American newspapers
2. The first American newspapers
3. Newspaper personalities
4. Categories of American newspapers
4.1. African-American newspapers
5. List of top newspapers in the USA
5.1. The four most influential newspapers
See also
References
Periods in the history of American newspapers
Task: Add images or videos to the timelinePeriods in the history of American newspapers on Dipity.
The first American newspapers
Task: Choose one of the newspapers and find information about it, using the Internet or other information sources.Newspaper personalities
These are the names of the Americans who contributed much to the development of American journalism and press.Task: Describe the contribution of each person to the development of American journalism.
Categories of newspapers
African American newspapersAfrican American newspapers are those newspapers in the United States that seek readers primarily of African American descent. These newspapers came into existence in 1827 when Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm started the first African-American periodical called Freedom's Journal.
In the late 19th century the main reason that the papers were created was for economic stability, and not for uplifiting. However, African Americans found both through African American Papers that were aspiring to fight oppression.
Many Black newspapers that began publishing in the 60's, 70's, and 80's went out of business because they could not attract enough advertising and economic decline. As of 2002, 2000 Black newspapers remained.
As of 2010 however, there has been a resurgence of online African American news organizations, most notably Black News, The Grio, and Black Voices. With the decline of print media and proliferation of internet access, more and more black news websites are popping up every day.
List of newspapers in the United States
Top 25 by circulation
This is a list of the 25 U.S. newspapers with the largest daily circulation. These figures were compiled by the Audit Bureau of Circulations for the six months ending September 2010, and represent each paper's highest circulation of the week, typically the Sunday edition. When two papers in a city produce a combined edition under a joint operating agreement, they are listed side-by-side.Contra Costa Times/
Oakland Tribune
Philadelphia Daily News
Longest running
The four most influential newspapers
The largest newspapers (by circulation) in the United States are USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.
Group work Task: Create a poster about the four most influential newspapers.
See also
References